BETHEL TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Authorities are still trying to track down a driver they say struck and killed a Florida man on I-78. It happened in Bethel Township, Berks County on Friday.<\/p>\n
“The State Police is classifying this as high priority,” said Trooper Ethan Brownback, PSP PIO for Troop L.<\/p>\n
Investigators are working to identify the person driving a white tractor trailer or box truck along I-78 Friday. They say around 11:15 a.m., a vehicle fitting that description hit and killed a 33-year-old man.<\/p>\n
The coroner has identified the victim as Phillip Daniel Henderson of Florida, who was pulled over at the time.<\/p>\n
“The victim was outside his truck fixing straps on his flatbed trailer while along the shoulder of the right lane of I-78, when he was hit by the hit-and-run truck, which then left the scene of the crash,” Brownback explained.<\/p>\n
Authorities say they are looking for any evidence that could help them get more information about the hit-and-run driver.<\/p>\n
“We are respectfully requesting anyone traveling eastbound on I-78 at mile marker 13.3 on that date, April 10, 2026, between the hours of 11:00 and 11:20 in the morning with dashcam video of the striking vehicle, which was a white tractor trailer box truck traveling in the right lane with heavy to moderate passenger side damage. [It would be likely] missing a side mirror and metal mirror frame piece, or of the victim’s vehicle, a blue Volvo tractor trailer, to please contact the State Police Hamburg barracks,” added Brownback.<\/p>\n
He says leaving the scene of a fatal crash like this could result in serious consequences.<\/p>\n
“This would be homicide by motor vehicle at the top and then a plethora of other charges underneath that,” Brownback said.<\/p>\n
The next of kin for the man killed was notified and an autopsy was scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n
If you have any information that could possibly help authorities, contact PSP Hamburg at 610-562-6885.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHEL TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Authorities are still trying to track down a driver they say struck and killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,46043,74319,44338,28,74320,128,130,129,74318,74321],"class_list":{"0":"post-164897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-bethel-township","10":"tag-hit-and-run-driver","11":"tag-interstate-78-in-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-phillip-daniel-henderson","14":"tag-reading-city","15":"tag-reading-city-headlines","16":"tag-reading-city-news","17":"tag-state-police-hamburg","18":"tag-trooper-ethan-brownback"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}